THE FATS OF LIFE

Mexico surpasses U.S. as chubbiest nation

'Same people who are malnourished are the ones who are becoming obese'

Published: 07/09/2013 at 12:43 PM

(GLOBALPOST) — Modern Mexicans’ urban lifestyle, rising incomes and myriad consumption vices have fed a seemingly endless struggle that’s killing thousands more of them each year.

Yep, we’re talking the desperate Battle of the (body) Bulge.

Even as nearly half its people are poor and as officials launch a national anti-hunger campaign, Mexico by some accounts recently has replaced the United States as the chubbiest of the globe’s larger countries.